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The Genesis II Church of Health and Healing has been claiming chlorine dioxide is a "miracle cure".
For years it has sold the industrial bleach as Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), stating it can cure things like autism, acne, cancer, diabetes and now COVID-19.
[...] Following an investigation [...] last week, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) today announced it had issued 12 infringement notices totalling $151,200 to MMS Australia for alleged unlawful advertising of Miracle Mineral Solution and other medicines.
... still a long way to injecting it, right? But maybe that's for The Genesis III Church of Health and Healing
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Church Selling Bleach as a Coronavirus Treatment Fined $151,200
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Thursday May 14 2020, @08:45PM (2 children)
The original language in which Genesis was written is Hebrew, and it's a dialect older than the rest by a hundred or more years. In those days, they just wrote consonants, not vowels. Vowels were added later, and so even those vowels in Gods name could be guesswork.
(Score: 2) by VanessaE on Thursday May 14 2020, @10:32PM
They are guesswork, to a degree: vowels weren't really added, so much as described. A few letters, including yod and aleph, are already used as vowels in some places (such as in ישראל, [Y]Israel), and probably since the beginning of the language. Or at least, that use appears to date back to ancient Aramaic, its predecessor.
That aside, each Hebrew letter can have nikud, diacritic marks usually placed below the baseline of the text, which show if that specific letter has an implied vowel and how it's pronounced. I checked several of my printed religious texts, and they're all written that way (which came as a surprise, to be honest).
As I understand it, nikud are not usually used in modern non-religious writing... I guess most people who read Hebrew just go by context, like how an English speaker doesn't usually need a breve or macron to know how to say "lead" (i.e. the element vs. the front position in a group).
Trivia: whether or not nikud are present, some letters can also have a dagesh, a dot which changes the initial consonant sound depending on its presence and position relative to the letter, without affecting the vowel sound (if any).
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 15 2020, @01:22PM
Right, all we really have in there is yod-heh-vav-heh. Still a good guess.
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